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Off Armageddon Reef
- Safehold Series, Book 1
- Narrated by: Oliver Wyman
- Length: 29 hrs and 58 mins
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Summary
Humanity pushed its way to the stars—and encountered the Gbaba, a ruthless alien race that nearly wiped us out. Earth and her colonies are now smoldering ruins, and the few survivors have fled to distant, Earth-like Safehold, to try to rebuild. But the Gbaba can detect the emissions of an industrial civilization, so the human rulers of Safehold have taken extraordinary measures: with mind control and hidden high technology, they've built a religion in which every Safeholdian believes, a religion designed to keep Safehold society medieval forever.
800 years pass. In a hidden chamber on Safehold, an android from the far human past awakens. This android, Merlin, emerges into Safeholdian society to begin the process of provoking technological progress, which the Church of God Awaiting has worked for centuries to prevent. To conceal his formidable powers he finds a base of operations in Charis, a mid-sized kingdom with a talent for naval warfare, where he plans to make the acquaintance of King Haarahld and Crown Prince Cayleb, and maybe, just maybe, kick off a new era of invention. Which is bound to draw the attention of the Church…and, inevitably, lead to war.
It's going to be a long, long process. And David Weber's Off Armageddon Reef is going to be the can't-miss Sci-Fi epic of the decade.
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- Anonymous User
- 16-06-21
awesome
this book had me on the edge og my aeat several times. it' a great story combined with a masterful narration.
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- Shaun
- 14-05-17
Amazing, just amazing
The story, reading and just everything about this book and the world's within it are captivating and awe inspiring.
100% recommended.
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- Olechka
- 20-02-23
Very Interesting
Have read the book, but the audiobook is great too. Brilliant plot and great narration.
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- Stephen Ault
- 05-01-23
Sequels
What a pity audible don’t have the follow ups. Thought Audible would save me having to buy them in hard back!
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- Mary K.
- 02-02-15
Amusing Yarn
Enjoyable, but predictable, with the result - ie clever android with serious tech manipulates a pre-reformation civilization.- never seriously in doubt. If you like the "1632..." series you will like this novel. Characters interesting and my attention was held. Very good narration..
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- Joe
- 01-12-15
Actually surprisingly good
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
Yeah, it's a decent story, if not a little detail-heavy.
The world is original, the story is gripping and the narrator has quite a nice voice, if not falling down a little with the accents.
What did you like best about this story?
The intrigue regarding the real origins of the Safeholdian religion.
Have you listened to any of Oliver Wyman’s other performances? How does this one compare?
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If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
WHAT IF YOUR ENTIRE RELIGION WAS A LIE?
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- Ash
- 13-12-20
Recommended
A good book, with a great premise and it does leave me wanting the next one.
It is perhaps a little predicable and the main characters are all very heroic with no real flaws - similar to the same authors Honor Harrington character/series. No flawed anti-heroes to be found.
Pacing was a little off in the middle but the action it was building too was worth the wait.
The narrator is great, lots of voices, among the best I've heard.
Recommended
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- Stephen
- 07-08-13
Dull
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If you like sci fi then you'll like the first five minutes of this book , if you like Kings,Bishops,Vicars and that boring stuff then you'll love the rest of this 30 hour book.
Don't waste your time or credits !
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- Anonymous User
- 17-11-23
Failed to the deliver
The story of an immortal main character who has no character and faces no internal or external conflict that isn't easily resolved.
Hold on there sonny Jim m'lad m'boy, can't have a female protagonist in our power fantasy! No worries though, we can rebuild her into man, we have the technology! No, it won't affect him psychologically in any way. No, or course not, the plot won't be affected, not even his internal monologue. It will literally never be brought up again except when he is aroused by other men's bodies.
If I were writing this book I would be concerned that the protagonist would have it too easy with the powers of their cyber body and future tech, but David Weber, no. He rises above such concerns, he gives the main character so much tech to work with that even they marvel at how their collaborators got it to them, despite this being a covert operation.
I am dropping this halfway through so maybe it changes, either way 15 hours is too long to wait for a book to get good.
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- D4ve
- 24-01-24
Becomes tediously lost up its own backside
It was going so well, but it's efforts to show political double speak as being just that, it gets lost so far up its own backside that huge long tedious chunks of dialogue become literally unbearable.
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